The was a huge thumping noise, as of a building filled with kettledrums collapsing, and Adelbern, the ghostly king of Ascalon, the Sorcerer-King who had struck fear in the hearts of the charr, turned, his face contorted in shock and awe.

Note 53: Tzehuey Chiou-Peng 2003, 8: "Archeological data indicate that the trajectory marked by the ancient kettledrums corresponds to routes that had been well blazed by the end of the second millennium BCE as a result of activities related to metal trade dealing with both raw materials and finished products." back

I was slooshying more like malenky romantic songs, what they call Lieder, just a goloss and a piano, very quiet and like yearny, different from when it had been all bolshy orchestras and me lying on the bed between the violins and the trombones and kettledrums.